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Is This Cool Or What?? (APOD 2008 Oct 20)
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:23 am
by Invisidrone
Looking at the recent Cassini pic from Saturn, I know it has been said a million times, but I still can't get over that human beings built a machine and sent it millions of miles away and it's orbiting the coolest planet in our Solar System. I have a hard time, as I imagine most of us do, trying to contemplate the
distance to that planet. It is sooooo far away from here.
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap081020.html
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 12:06 pm
by Dr. Skeptic
... and sent it millions of miles away and it's orbiting the coolest planet in our Solar System.
Maybe the second coolest planet, I would need to give the amazing blue orb of Earth first place.
Also, welcome to APOD!
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 8:44 pm
by apodman
I think Pluto is the coolest ... uh, never mind.
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:28 pm
by jesusfreak16
In terms of temperature it would be coolest
Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:56 pm
by emc
Welcome to APOD Invisidrone! Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to contemplate infinity for a long time? I do sometimes but the annoying honking at the traffic light distracts me.
Other than Earth, Saturn is the aesthetically coolest planet system IMO. I mean those rings and now the geometric polar storms and the possibly seasonal colors.
Ask a kid to draw a picture of a planet you’re typically going to get a circle with a ring around it. Kids know what’s cool!
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:35 pm
by bystander
apodman wrote:I think Pluto is the coolest ... uh, never mind.
jesusfreak16 wrote:In terms of temperature it would be coolest
Actually, it would be Neptune. Pluto is no longer a planet.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:54 pm
by orin stepanek
bystander wrote:apodman wrote:I think Pluto is the coolest ... uh, never mind.
jesusfreak16 wrote:In terms of temperature it would be coolest
Actually, it would be Neptune. Pluto is no longer a planet.
Pluto will always be a planet in my book. So is Ceres; Sedna; etc. 8)
Orin
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 4:27 pm
by bystander
orin stepanek wrote:Pluto will always be a planet in my book. So is Ceres; Sedna; etc. 8)
Obviously you are non-union
So, would Pluto / Charon be a double planet?
Posted: Fri Oct 31, 2008 12:56 am
by iamlucky13
orin stepanek wrote:bystander wrote:Actually, it would be Neptune. Pluto is no longer a planet.
Pluto will always be a planet in my book. So is Ceres; Sedna; etc. 8)
Orin
Hmmm...do you two know each other?
